Wastelands ~ The Game's afoot

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((Hey Anubis, what about Sydney's message?))

"The only thing I'm familiar with is my glock. I need that one." She seemed to take this turn of events in stride, giving no evidence of discomfort or disturbance, besides her quickened pace as she rounded up her weapon and ammunition.

"I've got you covered," she called out to Virgil, and it was true. Alert and ready, Nidia was prepared to obey her orders.

"Good, I'm having some success here. All of the RPG-7s have been rendered impotent, they're just going to hit the target and refuse to go off. I'm starting on the C5 and Semtex detonators now. I should be done here soon."

"Sydney's in trouble Saldana! We should get back to help him! I'm almost to the buggy so we can leave as soon as possible!" Alan radioed in to Saldana as he approached the buggy. He got back to the buggy and said to Saldana, "Looks like those things know you killed their friend eh? Heh heh."

News of the disorder in the bunker prompted Saldana to run back, doubletime.
When Saldana had reached the buggy, Alan was already in the gunner's seat. "Damnit, everyone's going nuts! Right, I'm taking us back as fast as this thing will go." The Colonel, jumped in, started the engine, pushed his foot on the accelerator, and drove the buggy in a full U turn, heading straight back for the bunker at seventy miles per hour.

"That's it all the explosives are duds now. We need to get to the central command center ASAP and start a complete diagnostic to stall the core." Picking up his shotgun again he started with off with Nida in tow. "Not quite the safe harbor you were expecting, eh?"

"Everyone's going nuts?" Alan yelled over the sound of the buggy driving at full speed, "I thought only Virgil was nuts!"

"Whatever's happening, we need to get the situation under control." Saldana shouted over the noise of the buggy's engine, and brought it to a halt right outside the warehouse, jumping to open the warehouse doors after he had turned it off. "Follow me, we don't have time to lock the warehouse up, just get down to Sydney's lab on sublevel 4, goddamnit!"

"No," she replied. "Not exactly. But I can't say I've never been here before. At least I'm not all alone this time."

Suspicions began to crop up in her mind as she eyed Virgil from behind, but she ignored them. With no way of confirming the truth, following this man looked to be the least risky of the three potential gambles that had occurred to her thus far.

Sydney turned his attention to the monitors. That SOB Virgil had sabotaged the armoury. What a short-sighted little fool. The weapons he was destroying almost irreparably might have come in useful if there was need to do demolition work out in the wasteland beyond the bunker. This was conclusive proof of Virgil's madness. The penalty was pain. And Sydney had a plan. As Virgil moved away from the bunker, Sydney called up the comms system, and linked it to another program....

"Right! But on the way, I'm going to need to get a weapon and ammo at the armoury! I didn't think to bring one when I went to set the sensors and camera up outside! I'll make a detour to the armoury! I'll meet back with you at the lab Sydney is trapped in!" So Alan left Saldana and went towards the armory. Unsuspecting of the trouble he was about to experience.

Swiping his keycard in a flash Virgil was glad to find the central computer undefiled. After shutting off Sydney's lab with a few commands he booted the diagnostic system - while the system was running this the power to the escape hatches and bunker doors would be cut off and most of the internal systems would be offline.

"There's one last thing we have to do, on sublevel six the bunkers power is generated by a nuclear reactor - I need to rig it to pull all the control rods at the same time (This would cause a massive chain reaction and blow the bunker off the map) just in case Sydney manages to engage whatever sick plan he has."

((I hope that this doesn't end in all the characters dying, this would wreck a good RP if it did.))

Alan reached the armoury, he went 'round a corner where a bullet nearly went into his skull. "What the hell?!" He yelled to himself and he saw the female ((he doesn't know the females name yet)) shooting him. He ducked behind a corner and yelled to her, "Why are you shooting at me for? I have to get a weapon so I can help save Sydney! Virgil is trying to kill him!"

"Sydney, what's your status? I'm heading down to your lab right now." Saldana quickly ran to the elevator, as Alan went down the stairs to the armoury.
Ding. Sub-Level Four. The colonel cautiously headed towards the lab Sydney was holed up in, and swiped his keycard.

The access panel read:

Access Denied

The door wouldn't open. There was evidence of an attempt to get in, and the metal blast door had been dented.

"Sydney, can you hear me?"

"Oh no you don't!" yelped Sydney as he saw Virgil start to head in what would be a bad direction. The reactor. He pulled a mircophone to his face and started talking...

"Testing, testing, one-two-three, this is Radio Roentgen, transmitting to all levels of the bunker. Yes, I can see you, Virgil. Heading for the reactor? Gonna blow this place up? Oh, I'm afraid I cannot allow that. How the hell are you going to stop me? Well, as you can see, I have control over the comm systems. And I know what you are thinking. What can that stupid little maniac do with just the comms? Well, how about I put on a bit of music? Lemme see, Advent: One-Winged Angel. With, I might add, as great a decibelage as possible, pumped only into that area."

The strains of Advent: One Winged Angel were pumped into the corrdior Virgil was haring down. It wasn't just the ear damage that would cause Virgil to collapse, but the pure power grinding his organs to pulp.

Suddenly, Sydney heard the beep of the door lock. He checked the ident code. The Colonel was prompt.

He tapped the comms again. "Colonel? Sydney here. I am stuck in here thanks to Virgil, and I saw him on the cameras heading for the reactor. I've managed to delay him. Let me know before you reach corrdor 7H, I'll get things safe for you."

The pain was horrific, it felt like his body was being ripped to shreds. He knew this was Sydney's brainchild but had ways of dealing with it. Pulling open his computer he managed cause a mass power overload in the speakers in the corriodor with some clever power management.

When that was done he got back on his shaky feet and ran on into the main reactor area - a literal broiler at 100 F to please the reactor.

Using his computer again he managed to hack into the reactors and controls and plant a program that would case the rods to all pull out at the same time, causing the core to go critical and explode in a massive fireball.

He picked up a radio nearby and barked at Sydney. "CHECK AND motherf****ng MATE! The reactor is rigged to explode if I press a button or if I die!"